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ISLAMABAD: The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) on Tuesday withdrew summons it had issued to Imran Khan just the previous day to explain his purportedly illegal plan to campaign for his PTI candidates in the upcoming local government election...

ROME: Italy's desire to court visiting Iranian President Hassan Rouhani extended to covering up classical nude sculptures in the museum where he met Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, it emerged on Tuesday...

The two men made speeches in Rome's Capitoline Museum after a Monday signing ceremony which saw Italian companies tie up $18 billion worth of deals with the Islamic Republic

While art historian Naman Ahuja and historian Rosie Llewellyn-Jones spoke of the flowering of the arts in 18th century India, historian Ayesha Jalal and others discussed the different facets of the Partition story and how, as Jalal put it, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh need to end finger-pointing and focus on healing the wounds of the divide...

LAHORE: The Punjab Primary and Secondary Health Department has ‘dumped’ a report of the Global Fund (GF), an international partnership organisation, wherein it has levelled allegation of misuse of funds by the health authorities...

In a first communication of its kind, the organisation took up the issue with the National Coordinator Common GF Management Unit, National Institute of Islamabad, exposing many senior officials of the Punjab...

ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (Pemra) on Saturday afternoon issued a notification prohibiting live coverage of the operation to end the Faizabad sit-in, following which most private news channels were taken off-air in Islamabad and other parts of the country...

Additionally, Facebook, YouTube, DailyMotion, Twitter and Instagram have been blocked in some parts of the country...

They exist in plain sight, just one search and one click away from any of Pakistan’s 25 million Facebook users...

An investigation carried out by Dawn across the month of April 2017 has revealed that 41 of Pakistan’s 64 banned outfits are present on Facebook in the form of hundreds of pages, groups and individual user profiles...

The government of Pakistan has made 192 requests for data from Facebook, for the period between January 2015 and June 2015, stated a report from the Digital Rights Foundation (DRF)...

The report elaborated further by stating that the Pakistani government had requested information related to 275 users/accounts, which were included in the 192 requests sent to Facebook for information...

The interior ministry informed the Islamabad High Court on Monday that Facebook administration has been blocking illegal blasphemous content on Pakistan's request and 85 per cent of such material on the social networking site has already been removed...

Interior Secretary Arif Khan said in his report that Facebook had responded to their letter and showed its willingness to remove content deemed blasphemous...